Case study
Platform for client software product
Providing stable, scalable and flexible platform for development and testing of clients product
Brief description of the company
The Deutsche Bundesbank is Germany's central bank, responsible for monetary policy, maintaining price stability, and overseeing financial systems within the country. It is a key member of the European System of Central Banks. We played a key role in T2/T2S Consolidation project which is a European Central Bank initiative aimed at harmonizing and integrating two key financial systems:
TARGET2 (T2) for real-time gross settlement in central bank money and TARGET2-Securities (T2S) for securities settlement. This project streamlines liquidity management, reduces operational costs, and enhances efficiency across the European financial market. By consolidating these systems, the initiative strengthens the financial infrastructure of the Eurozone and facilitates smoother cross-border transactions.
The challenge
For the T2/T2S Consolidation project, our team focused on providing stable platform to support the high demands of the project, ensuring reliable performance throughout.
The key challenge was building a platform that supports the development and testing of the client’s product while meeting critical requirements for stability, scalability, and flexibility. The expectations were to provide a solid foundation that minimizes downtime and ensures smooth, uninterrupted development cycles, even under heavy workloads. Flexibility was crucial to accommodate various development frameworks, testing environments, and CI/CD pipelines, enabling diverse teams to work efficiently with their preferred tools and methodologies. The platform should also streamline deployment processes, enhance collaboration, and maintain high security and reliability across all stages of product development and testing.
The challenge
For the T2/T2S Consolidation project, our team focused on providing stable platform to support the high demands of the project, ensuring reliable performance throughout.
The key challenge was building a platform that supports the development and testing of the client’s product while meeting critical requirements for stability, scalability, and flexibility. The expectations were to provide a solid foundation that minimizes downtime and ensures smooth, uninterrupted development cycles, even under heavy workloads. Flexibility was crucial to accommodate various development frameworks, testing environments, and CI/CD pipelines, enabling diverse teams to work efficiently with their preferred tools and methodologies. The platform should also streamline deployment processes, enhance collaboration, and maintain high security and reliability across all stages of product development and testing.
The solution
Infrastructure as a code - implemented an automated infrastructure within an Infrastructure as a code pattern to ensre stable and reliable software delivery environment CI/CD Pipeline Automation
Infrastructure as a code - implemented an automated infrastructure within an Infrastructure as a code pattern to ensre stable and reliable software delivery environment CI/CD Pipeline Automation - established automated Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to streamline the development, testing, and deployment processes. Integrated testing suites for automated testing to ensure the reliability of builds and reduce manual intervention. Monitoring and Performance Optimization - set up robust monitoring and alerting systems using tools like Prometheus and Grafana to track performance metrics and detect issues in real-time. Security: Integrate security measures throughout the testing infrastructure, ensuring secure test environments, protecting sensitive data, and implementing continuous security testing (DevSecOps) as part of the automated processes.
Collaboration and Tool Integration - integrated the platform with popular development and collaboration tools (e.g., Git, Jira, Slack) to enhance cross-team collaboration and ensure smooth workflows. Enabled flexible integrations with various development frameworks, languages, and tools to support diverse project needs and improve developer productivity. High Availability and Disaster Recovery - deployed high- availability architecture with failover strategies and implemented disaster recovery plans to ensure business continuity in the event of failures. Utilized redundant storage and backups, ensuring that development and testing environments could quickly recover from outages. Ongoing Support and Maintenance: GitOps Implementation - adopted GitOps practices to manage infrastructure and application deployment using Git as the single source of truth.
The solution
Infrastructure as a code - implemented an automated infrastructure within an Infrastructure as a code pattern to ensre stable and reliable software delivery environment CI/CD Pipeline Automation
Infrastructure as a code - implemented an automated infrastructure within an Infrastructure as a code pattern to ensre stable and reliable software delivery environment CI/CD Pipeline Automation - established automated Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to streamline the development, testing, and deployment processes. Integrated testing suites for automated testing to ensure the reliability of builds and reduce manual intervention. Monitoring and Performance Optimization - set up robust monitoring and alerting systems using tools like Prometheus and Grafana to track performance metrics and detect issues in real-time. Security: Integrate security measures throughout the testing infrastructure, ensuring secure test environments, protecting sensitive data, and implementing continuous security testing (DevSecOps) as part of the automated processes.
Collaboration and Tool Integration - integrated the platform with popular development and collaboration tools (e.g., Git, Jira, Slack) to enhance cross-team collaboration and ensure smooth workflows. Enabled flexible integrations with various development frameworks, languages, and tools to support diverse project needs and improve developer productivity. High Availability and Disaster Recovery - deployed high- availability architecture with failover strategies and implemented disaster recovery plans to ensure business continuity in the event of failures. Utilized redundant storage and backups, ensuring that development and testing environments could quickly recover from outages. Ongoing Support and Maintenance: GitOps Implementation - adopted GitOps practices to manage infrastructure and application deployment using Git as the single source of truth.
Facts at
a Glance
infrastructure as a code, iac
gitops, argocd
platform engineering
disaster recovery, backups,
monitoring, observability, grafana
over 4000 automated test cases running daily in our infrastructure
managment of 7 kubernetes clusters with more than 100 nodes
automatic test envs deployment in pipelines and e2e tests
control over all kubernetes deployments with GitOps
extensive monitoring and logging solution
mora than 50 ci/cd pipelines in jenkins and gitlab ci
Facts at
a Glance
infrastructure as a code, iac
gitops, argocd
platform engineering
disaster recovery, backups,
monitoring, observability, grafana
over 4000 automated test cases running daily in our infrastructure
managment of 7 kubernetes clusters with more than 100 nodes
automatic test envs deployment in pipelines and e2e tests
control over all kubernetes deployments with GitOps
extensive monitoring and logging solution
mora than 50 ci/cd pipelines in jenkins and gitlab ci
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